Recent Fiction Publication:

Content Engineering at the University of the Pacific

I
am currently putting together a self-designed major and post-graduate
certification program in Content Engineering for students at the University of the Pacific. The "hub" of this major will be the pioneering course called Content Engineering.

The
major will combine classes from the English and Communication
departments, from the Business School, and from the Engineering school.
If you are a Pacific student and interested in exploring this as a self-designed major or minor, please contact me.

Hong Kong Film Review Website Project

For
my Content Engineering class, I've required my students to create
content-rich blogs about topics they enjoy, with the aim of producing
commercially successful websites that target a specific market and
generate real traffic. I knew this would be a lot of work for the
students, so I committed myself do doing the same assignment along with
them. The result was The Gweilo's Guide to Hong Kong Movies, a film review site for a non-Chinese perspective on Chinese films.

Feel Free to Check Out The Site:

Leave comments, share links, etc. The assignment my students (and I) are doing can be found here.

Science and Literature Class

The
hard sciences and literature are often thought of as two entirely
separate academic domains, as two entirely separate practices. This is
far from the truth. This class will bridge that gap, as it explores the
intersections of science and literature within the realm of human
culture that they share.

FrankenMOO!

This is an ongoing project I began at Georgia Tech with Ron Broglio in 2001.

Filmmaking in Turkey

In
the Summer of 2010 I was in south western Turkey, teaching film making
to Turkish and international teenagers at Afaçan Youth Camp. It was a
project organized by Gençtur, in coordination with Volunteers for Peace.

Gender, Race, and Space Undergraduate Research Conference

Congratulations to all of our oustanding presenters who made this a very successful conference!

I
am one of the people who coordinated this undergraduate conference on
the campus of the University of the Pacific. It was a one-day
conference, and it took place on September 25, 2010. The official website is here.

Current Students:

Welcome
back students, advisees, and new members of the English Department at
Pacific! Here is a quick link to my Spring 2018 classes:

Links to other course syllabi are available below. Course material for registered students can be found on Canvas

Current Advisees:

Get in touch with me if you have any issues with your schedule. Your schedule and other tools are available through Inside Pacific. Contact me if you plan to make any changes to your schedule, or if you have any questions.